Posted on 05/31/2018 10:03:13 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to ones own. It takes its cue from a Roman playwrights line that nothing human is alien to me, and goes outward ready to be transformed by what it finds.
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But its a problem that our tribe of self-styled cosmopolitans doesnt see itself clearly as a tribe: because that means our leaders cant see themselves the way the Brexiteers and Trumpistas and Marine Le Pen voters see them.
They cant see that what feels diverse on the inside can still seem like an aristocracy to the excluded, who look at cities like London and see, as Peter Mandler wrote for Dissent after the Brexit vote, a nearly hereditary professional caste of lawyers, journalists, publicists, and intellectuals, an increasingly hereditary caste of politicians, tight coteries of cultural movers-and-shakers richly sponsored by multinational corporations.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I think a “caste system” also compares.
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